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Title: Every Lady a Gardener

Subtitle: A Selection of Writings about Gardens and Gardening by 19th Century Women

Author: Maria Jacson, Louisa Johnson, Jane Loudon, Eleanor Vere Boyle, C. W. Earle, Gertrude Jekyll, Dee Palmer

Narrator: Marilyn Cutts, Dee Palmer

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-11

Publisher: Crimson Cats Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A selection of writings about gardens and gardening by six 19th-century women, compiled by Dee Palmer. The selections in this recording are from The Florists Manual by Maria Jacson (published 1816), Every Lady Her Own Flower Gardener by Louisa Johnson (1839), Practical Instructions in Gardening for Ladies by Mrs Jane Loudon (1840), Days and Hours in a Garden by Mrs Eleanor Vere Boyle (1884), Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden by Mrs C. W. Earle (1897), and "Selections from the writings of Gertrude Jekyll" (1899 - 1918).

Compiler Dee Palmer is a journalist and writer with a special interest in gardening. When she started the research for this audiobook, she expected to find many differences between the experiences of 19th-century women gardeners and those of today. Instead, she was struck by how modern much of their advice is, and her personal selection from the writings of these six women reflects that.

Reader Marilyn Cutts graduated from Manchester University with a degree in English and a post-graduate diploma in drama. After starting at Derby Playhouse, she had her first taste of a commercial musical with a tour of Godspell! In 1983 she co-founded the group Fascinating Aida with Dillie Keane, leaving to pursue a solo career after the group was nominated for an Olivier award for their 20-year reunion tour, One Last Flutter. Her voice over work varies from documentaries, such as Defender of the Children for Yorkshire TV, to education tapes for IT students.

The music is composed by Richard Bissill and played by Richard Bissill (piano) and Susan Thomas (flute) The cover illustration is A Garden in October, Aldworth by Helen Allingham. It is reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford.

Critic Reviews:

"These extracts from six women gardening writers covering the century after 1816 are delightful. The suggestions for choosing border plants for colour blending and habit are just as pertinent now, almost two centuries later. " (Rachel Redford, Observer)

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Title: The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrator: Victoria McGee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-11

Publisher: Trout Lake Media

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 600 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Lennox, a sickly and contrary little girl, is orphaned to dim prospects in a gloomy English manor - her only friend is a bed-ridden boy named Colin, whose prospects may be dimmer than hers. But when Mary finds the key to a Secret Garden, the magical powers of transformation fall within her reach.

A beloved classic of children's literature The Secret Garden tells an inspirational tale of transformation and empowerment.

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Title: Alice in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-11

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1655 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Alice begins her fantastic journey by following an unprecedented White Rabbit with a pocket watch. While in the topsy turvy world of Wonderland, Alice takes advice from a caterpillar and attends a mad tea party. She meets the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon, and participates in a ludicrous courtroom scene. Each character has its own charming voice, as B. J. Harrison delivers one of his most whimsical performances.

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Title: The Swiss Family Robinson

Author: Johann Wyss

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-11

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 129 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A horrible tempest hurls an abandoned ship against the shoal rocks with the force of a hurricane. Once the tremendous storm passes, a family appears from within the crushed vessel. Now a father, a mother, and their four sons must carve out a new life for themselves on an unchartered tropical island. Come and join the Swiss Family Robinson, as they learn how to survive while battling the savage forces of nature and discover the wonders of their own paradise.

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Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

Narrator: Shane Sody

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-11

Publisher: Shane Sody (Sody Audio Books)

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The story of Alice in Wonderland began when the Reverend Charles Dodgson and his friend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat up the River Thames with the three Liddell sisters: Lorina (aged 13), Alice (aged 10), and Edith (aged 8). To while away the time during the eight-kilometer journey, Dodgson told the girls a story that, not so coincidentally, featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The three girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. He eventually did so and gave Alice the first manuscript of what he called Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Later, he printed a more elaborate copy by hand, illustrated it, and presented it to Alice as a Christmas present.

On the advice of a friend, whose children had also loved the story, Dodgson expanded the manuscript and submitted it for publication, under the pseodonym "Lewis Carroll". The initial print run of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland sold out quickly. From the beginning, Alice was a publishing sensation, beloved by children and adults alike. The book has been translated into more than 50 languages and has never been out of print. There have also been many movie versions of the story. The most popular has been the Disney animated movie (1951), but there have also been several live-action films. The best known are the British version made in 1972 and the U.S. version made for TV in 1999. Now you can have this incomparable story read to you or your children. This audio version is a new recording, faithful to Lewis Carroll's book.

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Title: Lorna Doone [Naxos]

Author: R. D. Blackmore

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 83 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Doones are a clan of murdering thieves, and among their victims is John Ridd's father. The strong, noble Ridd determines to avenge his father's death; but his plans are complicated when he falls in love with one of the hated family - the beautiful Lorna. Lorna is promised against her will to another; and that other will not let her go lightly.

Set amid the political turmoils of the late 17th century, Lorna Doone brings West Country history and legends alive with wonderfully imaginative fiction. Brimming with vivid descriptions and cliff-hanging action, it is a true classic of romantic adventure.

Critic Reviews:

"First published in 1869, this great tale of well-born brigandage, yeoman valor and maiden peril set in Restoration England's West Country, Devon and Somerset, gives full expression to mid-Victorian longing for a vanished agricultural past. Its audio form releases the language from the page thanks to Jonathan Keeble, an extraordinarily skilled voice actor who takes on the archaic Devon accent as though born to it - which, as a native of the region, he was. The novel's quietly droll passages and paeans to nature are greatly enhanced by his country aplomb. Moreover, the dialect that snags the reader in print ("Whoy, dudn't ee knaw . . . as Jan Vry wur gane avore braxvass") emerges here as fluid speech, its cadence a joy to hear." (Washington Post Book World)

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Title: The Princess and the Goblin

Author: George Macdonald

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-11

Publisher: Assembled Stories

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 162 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Revolutionary for the time in encouraging children to think like children, the adventure of Princess Irene and Curdie, the boy miner, was to influence generations of writers, including Chesterton and Tolkien. Overflowing with fantastic ideas and images to delight the young and allegory to inspire their morality The Princess and the Goblin has remained one of the most exciting tales for over 100 years.

Irene lives in a castle on a mountain, under which there is a labyrinth of tunnels inhabited by Goblins. Also, within the hillsides, there is a group of miners digging for precious metals. When the Goblins try to kidnap the Princess and flood the mines, it is up to Curdie, the boy miner, and Irenes great-great-great grandmother to use their wit and resources to defeat the wicked plan.

I for one can really testify to a book that has made a difference to my whole existence, which helped me to see things in a certain way from the start.... Of all the stories I have read, it remains the most real, the most realistic, in the exact sense of the phrase the most like life. It is called The Princess and the Goblin, and is by George MacDonald.

G.K. Chesterton.

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Title: The Prisoner of Zenda

Author: Anthony Hope

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-11

Publisher: Assembled Stories

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The hugely successful romantic adventure story which continues to thrill a century after it was written. It has all the classic ingredients - a twisting plot of betrayal and deception, love interest, great swashbuckling action and a most beguiling villain in Rupert of Hentzau, who captured the publics imagination and had them begging the author for a sequel.

Rudolph Rassendyll visits Ruritania, with whose Royal Family he has a connection because of a scandalous sexual indiscretion in the past. When the heir apparent is kidnapped, Rudolph by virtue of his physical similarity to the new ruler, is plunged into a sequence of events in which he is crowned, then must rescue The Prisoner of Zenda in order to continue the royal line and pay court to the Princess Flavia - the latter task coming very easy to him as he falls deeply in love. A terrific, original tale much imitated by succeeding authors - but never bettered. Great entertainment and part of literary history!

Critic Reviews:

About Assembled Stories: Over the years the national press have reviewed Assembled Stories titles as "excellent", "remarkable", "entrancing", "superb", "magic for sure", "masterly", "wonderful", "a class act" and "a splendid example of audio at its best".

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Title: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-11

Publisher: Assembled Stories

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Dr Jekyll creates a potion whereby he can divide the good and evil parts of his personality and thus free the good side to work for the benefit of mankind without the distraction of his baser instincts. Unfortunately, he undertakes the experiment while the depraved side of his nature is in the ascendancy and turns into the repulsive Mr Hyde, whose very presence emanates with foulness and decay, and who bears the signature of Satan on his face. Hyde eventually commits murder and begins to dominate the tortured Jekyll, inhabiting the Doctors body more and more - and then Jekylls supply of the drugs to make his potion and effect the transformation start to run out!

The idea for this horror story came to Stevenson in a nightmare. Part thriller, part mystery the novels construction was also notable, for the action is described by three of the protagonists. The terrifying tale was hailed as a literary landmark when it was first published in 1886.

Critic Reviews:

About Assembled Stories: Over the years the national press have reviewed Assembled Stories titles as "excellent", "remarkable", "entrancing", "superb", "magic for sure", "masterly", "wonderful", "a class act" and "a splendid example of audio at its best".

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Title: The Rainbow

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Narrator: Maureen O'Brien

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-13-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of Brangwens, a family deeply involved with the land and noted for their strength and vigour. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter, Anna, as his own, he is unprepared for the conflict and passion that erupts between them. Their stories continue in Women in Love.

Critic Reviews:

"O'Brien reads the Brangwens, both women and men, as vital people, with instinctive lines that are both sensual and spiritual; always they are whole and organic as they are drawn inexorably into the Rainbow. Both book and reading give us Lawrence at his best." (AudioFile)

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